Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
Mary [Muir]
Preview
Transcription
[4]which you cannot easily find in the woods. Write to me before you go and I will send you a letter of introduction to Prof. Butler's family & they will introduce you to others & you will soon feel at home. If David has any of my money you & Anna can take it & go when you wish or let me know & I will send you some. I mean to travel in South America & perhaps in Europe but I have more or will soon have more than I will need, unless I should happen to be taken sick. I have been engaged for the last five weeks in shearing sheep but will soon go to work at something else, haying or harvesting then shearing again, & then away on more travels. I work hard but make money pretty fast & botanize & study when I can at nights &odd times. I had a letter from Anna that I meant to answer today but it will soon be sundown and I have three or four miles to walk over the hills to where I am shearing Yours with much love[1] Near La Grange Cal. May 3d'69.Dear Mary, Your note of March 18th reached me a few days ago & in answer to the question it contains, I would say without any hesitation that to sketch residences etc. for a living is about the most unpractical & unhappy plan you could possibly entertain. A photographer can produce a picture in a few minutes that would cost you the labor of as many weeks & the practical taste of most people now adays would cause them to prefer the photograph to the pencil picture. I think that you would find it less difficult to earn $100 by teaching drawing than to earn $1 by selling drawings. In a thousand young persons
Location
Near La Grange, Calif.
Date Original
1869 May 2
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir02_0085-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0085
Copyright Status
Copyrighted
Copyright Statement
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html
Owning Institution
John Muir National Historic Site. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Page Number
Page 1
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
